I thought the story itself wasn't all that exciting. It kept on saying 'this is an exciting chapter' but then it wouldn't be – and there was page after page of quite unexciting writing.

The characters in the story are Gran, Hannah, Billy, Armitage Shanks, and the rest are not in the story very much. Most of the characters had adventurous spirits and personalities. For example, Hannah can make herself cry when hearing not-very-sad-tales.

I like books with a lot of detail in the characters and settings in mysterious places. This book did not include very much detail of the characters' lives and activities. The setting wasn't described much, so I couldn't picture the image of the setting (which was in a small town).

The book could have had more detail in the descriptions, and could have developed the characters more. My rating would be 3 out of 10.